AAPI Cultures Quiz 1 - Assimilation

Bhangra is...

• Popular Punjabi folk dance

• Used to celebrate harvest time

• Created by laborers and workers

• All of the above

Southall was known as Little India

• True

• False

__________ was essential to selling Bhangra albums because Bhangra was not sold in high-end music stores yet

Why did Bhangra never make it into the national charts?

Answer explanation

Bhangra albums were mostly sold in grocery and corner stores -- which didn't always register the amount of Bhangra albums or cassettes that were being sold.

What was a solution to get Bhangra to the people, in particular young women and girls?

• Concerts in public spaces

• Late-night clubs

• Day-time gigs

• Public radio

Answer explanation

Indian people were not allowed in British Clubs to begin with -- so day-time gigs became a way to make Bhangra more accessible for Indian teenagers who couldn't stay out late.

In the 1990s in Birmingham, the artist Bali Sagoo was experimenting between adding Bhangra and ______ beats due to growing up around large Indian and Afro-Caribbean communities.

The term "Asian American" was first coined in the...

• 1880s during Chinese Exclusion Act

• 1910s during World War 1

• 1920 during women's suffrage movement

• 1960s during Civil Rights Movement

Anne Anlin Cheng, whose book “The Melancholy of Race,” published in 2000, offers a theoretical framework for considering grief and mourning as defining vectors of the racial experience. She concludes that:

• One is melancholic simply because of the experience of racism

• Melancholy, and its dynamics of loss and recovery, are the foundations for racial identity.

• Racism is melancholic.

• One is melancholic because of race

Studies show that:

• Asian Americans are the most economically diverse racial group in the U.S.

• Asian Americans are less likely than general population to seek out counseling.

• All of the above

What's a familiar immigrant narrative

• Meritocracy is real and immigrants prove it

• Pull yourself up by the bootstraps works

• Children of immigrants often feel like they have to make up for their parents' sacrifice

• None of the above